- Jan. 9, 2020Updated 5:30 p.m. ET
Video
verified by The New York Times appears to show an Iranian missile
hitting a plane above Parand, near Tehran’s airport, the area where
a Ukrainian
airliner stopped
transmitting its signal before it crashed on Wednesday.
A
small explosion occurred when a missile hit the plane, but the plane
did not explode, the video showed. The jet continued flying for
several minutes and turned back toward the airport, The Times has
determined. The plane flew toward the airport ablaze before it
exploded and crashed quickly, other
videos verified
by The Times showed.
Visual
and sonic clues in the footage matched flight path information and
satellite imagery of the area near where the plane crashed. The
satellite images were taken on Thursday and provided to The Times by
Maxar Technologies, a space technology company. This helped to verify
the video’s authenticity.
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Sources:
Flightradar24, OpenStreetMap, Google | Note: Times are in local time.
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In
the video, approximately 10 seconds elapse between the flash of
impact with the plane and the sound of the explosion reaching the
camera. The sound delay indicates the plane was a little over two
miles from the camera at the time of impact. This comports with the
path of the flight, as recorded by the flight tracking company
FlightRadar24.
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